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Worldwide Telescope - Kinect Style
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(4)At Mix 11 Johnathan Fay from Microsoft Research showed a demo of Worldwide Telescope using Kinect as a controller. I stopped by during Mix 11 to get more details about what it does, how it works, and when we'll be able to play with this ourselves. -
Microsoft Research Lets you Pinch the Sky
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A new CNN video shows off a demo of an interesting Microsoft Research project: “Pinch-the-Sky.” The Pinch-the-Sky Dome is a large installation that combines an omni-directional camera in the center of a dome, along with a projector and astronomical data from World Wide Telescope. The end result is… -
WWT Comes to Bing Maps
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Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope project has just been integrated with Bing Maps via a new Bing Maps application. The WWT project connects users to all the major telescopes in the world and the images they’ve captured via a client application that either runs on the desktop or in the web browser… -
WWT and Photosynth Make Best Websites of 2009 List
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Although the year isn’t over yet, TIME Magazine has already put out their list of the best websites of 2009. Among the obvious choices on the list (Twitter, YouTube, Hulu, Wikipedia), there are also some rarer gems like musical mood site Musicovery, streaming music up-and-comer Spotify, and online… -
WorldWide Telescope is Now a Web App
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Starting today, you don’t have to download any software to your PC to enjoy what Microsoft Research’s WorldWide Telescope has to offer – it’s now available online as a web application! This is good news for folks running non-Windows operating systems who were previously unable to use this amazing… -
Worldwide Telescope em Silverlight
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Para quem ainda não teve a oportunidade de instalar e experimentar esse software maravilhoso, agora você não tem desculpa. Uma versão em Silverlight do Worldwide Telescope está no ar. É uma versão mais limitada, em termos de funcionalidades, do que a versão para instalação, mas mesmo assim ainda… -
Explorando o universo no Worldwide Telescope com WALL∙E e Beethoven
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Para comemorar o lançamento em DVD do WALL∙E a Pixar criou uma tour virtual para o Worldwide Telescope onde o WALL∙E mostra as belezas dos planetas, das constelações, das estrelas e das galáxias no software da Microsoft. Tudo isso com a Sinfonia Número 3 – Scherzo: Allegro vivace de Beethoven. Para… -
WorldWide Telescope: Equinox Release
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WorldWide Telescope (WWT), the downloadable software from Microsoft Research which lets you explore the universe, has certainly lived up to its pre-launch hype. As of today, the WWT has 1.5 million active users – that’s not downloads, mind you, but people actively using the software on a regular… -
WWT Comes To Virtual Earth
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The amazing WorldWide Telescope got a lot of hype pre-launch but you haven’t heard much about in recent days. Although now the WWT is being used by a number of astronomers, scientists, students, and space enthusiasts across the globe, the Microsoft Virtual Earth team decided to give it a little… -
How the WorldWide Telescope works
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Jonathan Fay is principal developer of the WorldWide Telescope. In this interview he explains how the project has yielded not only a breakthrough software product, but also a reference model for the acquisition, transformation, and visualization of astronomical data. You'll learn not only how…